Pwnie 2013 awards nominees announced

Snowden, Cryptocat and the Internet Census among contenders.

Nominees have been announced for the Pwnie 2013 awards that recognise the best and worst achievements, failures and demonstrations of incompetence from the information security over the last year.

The popular awards were handed out each year at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. A panel of security professionals hand picked winners in each of the nine categories from nominees selected by the community.

Each year the awards recognised the researchers who have discovered or exploited the best security bugs, the best hacks, and the vendor products which contained the worst vulnerabilities.

This year candidates for the most technically sophisticated and interesting server-side bug discovered or exploited included:

And security publication Hackin9 for failing to fact check an article (Nmap: The Internet Considered Harmful - DARPA Inference Checking Kludge Scanning) submitted by the security community which was revealed to be a fabricated parody.

The Pwnie awards for lifetime achievement and the lamest vendor response will be announced at the ceremony on July 31.

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